Today I did some detailing...

Nice work - looks like a great colour to work on - say it came up very nicely!!

Did some detailing inside and outside on the car today in between the rain.

Got some Dr Leather off Detailing Shed yesterday and used it on the seats today. Very impressed with it, used a light brush to get into the smaller areas and they came up a treat. Still have the back seats to do though!



After that, a wash, detar, fallout remover and began claying the outside. Eventually ran out of daylight so hoping to finish claying and then a polish and some wax over the weekend.





Seem to be having trouble uploading these pictures as they keep rotating(?). Not sure how to stop that from happening sorry folks!

Is that a Brera beside it?

166man wrote: »

Now that's where things get a bit tricky. I only have AG SRP polish with me as well as Chemical Guys P40 polish I think.

I bought the OKD Concours wax on Wednesday, was half tempted to not polish it and apply the wax straight onto the clayed paintwork, thoughts?

If it weere me I would only use the P40 polish. I had this before and found it excellent to prep paint for sealing after.

SRP contains fillers and would affect the durability of the OKD wax.

Couple of hours this morning...

Two bucket wash, clay bar, colinite.. Tyres dressed with meguiars had done the interior Thursday night

That one has uploaded fine actually :pac:

Picked this Civic up cheap recently off a work colleague. Hadn't been washed in a number of years so I spent the whole day on it. I'll let the pics do the talking.













Could really do with one or 2 more applications of auto wheels but it's good enough for the moment.



Here it is fully decontaminated. Washed, de-tared, de-ironed and clayed.



Polishing started. Everyone likes a 50:50



Reflection.



Headlights were restored. 1500 grit, 2500 grit, V32 on an orange pad, V38 on a green pad finally V38 on a white pad. (hex-logic pads BTW)



Interior grot.

Great work DZ!!

He can be you're numberplate buddy

what sort of damage do bonnet bras cause from a detailing point of view? Did you have it off today for polishing?

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Not 100% sure to be honest, the Rack + Bra was off while I was doing it, he has those on for shows, not sure if they cause much damage to be honest as there was nothing noticeable from it before I polished it!

I know they protect from stone chips but I would be worried it would leave a load of fine scratches near the edge where they flap in the wind.

Really think these are pointless. And they make the car that they're on ugly as feck.

Whether it protects the paint or not, it's stated job is to prevent against stone chips. But what's the point if you can't see the paintwork in the first place. So completely pointless in my opinion.

Then again I'm not the biggest fan of any sort of bra so perhaps I'm a little bit biased

Keeping with the mondeo theme

Exact same process as the focus a few posts back.

However, I took off all the wheels yesterday, detarred them, deironed and polished them. Should make the dirt easier to remove again.

I never treated the interior of them wheels before, badly needed doing. They were never done I'm thinking, there was so much sticky marks from balancing weights, must have gone through some amount of tyres before I got them!

About 16 hours work gone into it between today and yesterday. Cleaned all the arches yesterday

Today, car paintwork got:

Wash - 2 bm - microfibre
Dry - micro fibre towel
Removed reg plates
Detar
Wash
Clayed
Rinsed
Dried
Polished - P40 Polish (Buffed with machine polisher)
Waxed - Butterwax
Tyres dressed
Interior got a thorough vacuuming and dash cleaned, along with a new air freshener. Must get a lad to wet vac the seats soon too.

A few pics

Just after finishing the CSL/EXO application:




Some EXOllent beading:

330d?